Nassim Nicholas Taleb Quotes
It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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It's pretty far, but it doesn't seem like it.
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Success is really about your mindset.
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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Museums are not normally presenting the works on the walls as provocations to work. It's more like going to a Jacuzzi.
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I was held in the Mazra Tora Prison for my role as leader of the pan-Islamist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in Alexandria.
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I have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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As a franchise, we don't have any different expectations than anyone else.
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I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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All these types of love come out of duty, respect, and gratitude. Most of them, as the women in my county know, are sources of sadness, rupture, and brutality.
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We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.
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I've always thought that having an attractive free agent is better than a guy who was picked in the seventh round.
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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It is often the mistakes of others that benefit the rest of us-and, sadly, not them ... For the antifragile, harm from errors should be less than the benefits.
